If you want to capture your audience’s attention, you have to provide a great user experience. An interactive website is one of the best ways to keep your users engaged and returning to your site. While interactive websites may look impressive, they don’t have to be difficult to create. With jQuery, you can achieve an interactive web experience rather easily.

Designed to simplify JavaScript scripting, jQuery is the most widely used JavaScript library in use today. You can quickly incorporate dynamic and interactive content into a webpage with just a few lines of code. jQuery simplifies JavaScript by providing shorthand commands for more complex functionality. In other words, you can get more functionality with less coding.

When you’re embedding a video in an interactive document, like an SWF or a PDF, you often want to call attention to certain events in the video. With navigation points, you can jump readers to certain time codes with the click of a button. In this episode of InDesign Secrets, Anne-Marie Concepción shows how to add navigation points with InDesign’s Media panel and link them to ready-made buttons (complete with rollover states) from the Button library. You can then assign video-specific actions and export your document to an interactive format—and you’re ready to go.

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